St Paul MN May 23 2021 A New York man was arrested and charged with cocaine possession Thursday after snorting the drug and “acting erratically and causing a commotion” on a commercial flight, forcing the plane to be diverted to Minneapolis-St. Paul, authorities said. According to federal court documents, Jet Blue Airlines Flight 915 was en […]
PALO ALTO CA May 23 2021 – A “coordinated group” of at least 10 people stole $150,000 worth of handbags from a Palo Alto department store on Wednesday afternoon, police said. Officers were initially called to the Neiman Marcus at Stanford Shopping Center about 12:20 p.m. for a report of a man with a gun, the […]
OKLAHOMA CITY OK May 23 2021 Two suspects have been arrested and charged after a string of dispensary robberies. The suspects are identified as 20-year-old Marvin Crosby and his accomplice Dametrius Turner. The crimes started about a month ago. At one dispensary, Crosby allegedly disarmed the store’s security guard and held him at gunpoint. Another employee […]
AUSTIN, Texas May 22 2021 A bill which would provide immunity from liability for school security personnel in case of a safety issue authored by an East Texas state representative has received approval in the committee phase of the Texas Senate. Rep. Cole Hefner (R-Mount Pleasant) authored HB 1788. It concerns immunity from liability of public […]
Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania May 22 2021 An alert was sent to parents of children at a Montgomery County elementary school after security guards found a gun inside the car of a substitute teacher in the parking lot, officials said. A guard at Colonial Elementary School in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania first noticed a car that was […]
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. May 22 2021 A 9-year-old student at Springdale Elementary School was handcuffed by police after the school’s principal called officers saying she was having a “temper tantrum,” a community group says. Police said the student is accused of attacking other students on a school bus and they claim she was handcuffed “for her […]
FREMONT CA May 22 2021 School district leaders in Fremont said they plan to spend more than $900,000 annually to ensure city police officers will continue to patrol the district’s six high school campuses as part of a longstanding program that has been disbanded, partially reinstated, and renegotiated in the last several months. The Fremont Unified […]
Guelph, Ontario. Canada May 22 2021 The head of the Guelph Police Association is finding the decision to end the school police program in Guelph “profoundly disappointing”. Matt Jotham, president, told the Mike Farwell Show on 570 NEWS officers were part of the school community and were contributing in many different ways. “Many officers provided […]
BALTIMORE MD May 22 2021 One-third of calls coming into Johns Hopkins University Office of Campus Safety and Security are incidents related to a mental health crisis. “We may get a parent who just had a conversation with their child and was just really concerned because of something that they said just didn’t seem right or […]
KANSAS CITY, MO May 22 2021 The Kansas City Council has stripped the police of more than $44 million dollars in their upcoming budget. Thursday evening, The City Council of Kansas City swiftly approved two ordinances that reallocate a portion of the police department’s budget to a new fund. The council’s approval came just hours […]